Philosophy & Thought: Free Will & Fate Quotes

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"A man convinced against his will is not convinced"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

Laurence J. Peter

"If you try to fight the course, it will beat you"

Lou Holtz, Coach

Lou Holtz

"The world is independent of my will"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

Alan Watts

"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

Martin Heidegger

"I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

Charles Spurgeon

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent"

John Calvin, Theologian

John Calvin

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them"

Don Marquis, Journalist

Don Marquis

"The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

Alfred Adler

"Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable, and therefore only to be borne"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

Joseph Conrad

"Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

Emanuel Swedenborg

"History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

Charlotte Bronte

"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle"

James Dean, Actor

James Dean

"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning"

James Dean, Actor

James Dean

"I live in sin, to kill myself, I live; no longer my life, my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived"

Michelangelo, Artist

Michelangelo

"Fortune, that favors fools"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own"

Andre Malraux, Author

Andre Malraux

"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

Henri Poincare

"Fate is for losers"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

Karl Popper

"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame"

Erica Jong, Novelist

Erica Jong

"Every single moment is a coincidence"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"A character is a completely fashioned will"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes, turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name"

William Morris, Designer

William Morris

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

Barbara Jordan

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